Issues : Errors in FE

b. 1-5

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

in bar 5 in GC (→GE) & EE

in bar 1 in FE

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Placing a metronome marking at the beginning of the Etude in FE is certainly a mistake. This edition adopted – in the entire Opus 25 and in other pieces – a graphical solution consisting in placing indications concerning metronome not above the notes (next to the tempo indication), yet in the indent of the first line of the note text. The rule was applied also here, not taking into account the fact that it is misleading in relation to the different tempo of the first four bars.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 5-6

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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FE overlooked the general part of the octave sign over the initial, highest fragment of figuration (in the majority of the sources, including FE, it embraces also half of bar 6). The only visible trace of the indication is the word loco, which was used to end the octave sign in the times of Chopin. This patent error was corrected in FED and FEJ.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FEJ

b. 11

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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In the 2nd half of the bar, the only accidental in the part of the R.H. in GC, FE and EE1 is a  raising d3 to d3. The notation, although inaccurate, determines also the sound of the 6th and 10th semiquavers in the 2nd half of the bar as d2 and d1. In turn, nothing indicates raising the 3rd, 7th and 11th semiquavers, which, in this situation, should read f3f2 and f1. This version, however, is impossible in this melodic and harmonic context – the use of g as delay of the fifth of the B7 chord requires f (possibly f) as resolution. The sharps raising the discussed notes to f3f2 and f1 were added in GE and later EE (in EE2 without  before the 11th semiquaver). Cf. bar 75.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors in EE , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors of GC

b. 12

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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In GC and FE there is no  raising g1 to g1. This patent oversight was corrected in GE and EE. Similarly in bar 76.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors of GC

b. 25

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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In GC and FE there is no  returning g1. This patent error was corrected in GE. EE also includes the correct text.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Errors of GC